One possibility, Li says, is that forming a pseudopod leaves a temporary "sear" in the cell's structure, making it more likely that the next pseudopod will emerge from a different part of the organism's cell wall and head in a different direction.

The present study observed that pretreatment of rat neutrophils with Iso resulted in a decrease of ruffles and pseudopods on the surface of rat neutrophils stimulated with PMA, indicating the possibility that Iso has an inhibitory effect on the migration and phagocytosis of neutrophils.

It moved slowly by sticking out tentative fingers of itself (we learned these projections were called pseudopods) and now and again simply flowed all of its blob into one of the pseudopods while abandoning and withdrawing from the others.

My second book, The Rainbow Stories, seemed even less capable of sending out pseudopods into the periodical world, and I was astonished one day while loitering in my illegal, pipe-smoke-reeking basement apartment, when the phone rang and I learned that Conjunctions (of which I'd never heard) would reproduce a long story, uncut--moreover, a story filled with violence, obscenity, and racism (it was reportage on neo-Nazi skinheads).

With realism paramount, Nucleus artists turned to MAXON's BodyPaint 3D to simulate the texture of a living heart and utilized several other CINEMA 4D modules, including HAIR, for generating cellular pseudopods, the arm-like extensions on cells, and Dynamics to create the natural bounce that occurs when migrating cells bump into each other.

Testate amoebae (Arcellinida and Euglyphida) are protozoa with cytoplasm partially enclosed in a shell or test, with an oral aperture through which pseudopods protrude for locomotion or feeding (SMITH et al.

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